Open AccessThe Subject in the Structure: Issues of Procedure in Contemporary American Poetry
Author(s) -
Hélène Aji
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
e-rea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1638-1718
DOI - 10.4000/erea.437
Subject(s) - poetry , subject (documents) , history , literature , aesthetics , art , computer science , world wide web
One may argue that it all started with Gertrude Stein and her focus on the constraints imposed by language on perception and the subsequent grammar of infinite repetitivity and minute variation that informs her poetic texts. This notion of a subject permanently and irredeemably caught in the very “structure” of his expressive modes opens up a multiplicity of debates centred around the attempts at assessing and gaining control over these restrictions.One of them lies in the impulse to free poe..